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NachoMama
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Hi! I'm new here. Intro's are hard, but here goes...
My name's Anne. I’m happily married to Joe (not your average) and homeschool four daughters ages 14, 11, 9, and 8. My dh was raised Catholic, I was raised Baptist (of some southern flavor). After 14 years of marriage, I converted along with my daughters and we were received into the Church in January of 2006. (What took me so long?... well… it REALLY wasn’t about the husband, if you kwim…) Anyway, needless to say, my conversion has changed a lot of things… including my ability to ‘fit in’ to (and identify with) the protestant hsing circles I used to run in with ease and the curriculum I want to use. This group was recommended on The Catholic Spitfire Grill which I help moderate and I came over to take a peek. After the prot forums, these forums were a breath of fresh air and a balm to a battered soul… but I don’t (or didn’t) use a Catholic curriculum and felt a bit… out of place. Also, despite an increasing discontent, I didn’t see God prepping me for a curriculum change. (One of these years I’m gonna learn to recognize the signs.) Within two weeks of finding this group, I found some Catholic curriculum names on the Catholic Answers forums and one of them was JUST what I’d been *wishing* for. That seeming roadblock out of the way, I came back to see what was said about the curriculum over here… and figured I’d best just go ahead and say ‘howdy’. As the only Catholic homeschooler in the area (for at least another three months and then only one of two families), I am really looking forward to some Catholic hs fellowship!
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Paula in MN
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Welcome Anne. You've come to the right place!
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Welcome to the board, Anne. It's great to "see" you here. I recognize you from the LLL board (I only lurked so you don't know me.  ) This is a great place to be. It's my absolute favorite place online. The ladies here are all very warm, welcoming, and powerful prayer warriors.
A big welcome also to Denise, Fuzzy, and Hoosiermama. 
I look forward to getting to know all of you.
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NachoMama
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Michaela wrote:
Welcome to the board, Anne. It's great to "see" you here. I recognize you from the LLL board (I only lurked so you don't know me. ) This is a great place to be. It's my absolute favorite place online. The ladies here are all very warm, welcoming, and powerful prayer warriors.
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Thanks! I sure appreciate the warm welcome! (I kinda feel like the resident pariah over there so when I first saw that you said you knew me from LLL, I went back to check the 'great to see you part!  Thanks again!
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Nacho Mama! I've read your posts on LLL and I was a regular on the SL forums years ago before you converted.
You endure the heat over there, friend! Welcome and jump right in. The water is positively temperate here. 
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NachoMama
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Bookswithtea wrote:
Nacho Mama! I've read your posts on LLL and I was a regular on the SL forums years ago before you converted.
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Thanks! You guys have me  ... in a good way... 
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Maryan
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Hi Fuzzy! My Pampered Chef expert! I agree -- I love all the emoticons!!
And welcome to hoosiermama, Anne and Denise too!
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Hi,
My name is Holly, we live in Connecticut. I have 5 kids and one in God's care. Tara is 7, the twins (otherwise known as the dynamic duo or the troublesome trucks depending on the day) Joshua and Nadia are 5 1/2, Tegan is 2 and Keara is 7 months. We are Byzantine Catholics in the Ruthenian Rite and attend Roman Mass and Byzantine Mass interchangeably. Our son Joshua was born in end stage renal failure causing my twins to be taken in an emergency C-section (sigh!). He suffered through kidney failure for the first 15 months until I donated my kidney to him. He is doing OK, but recently we discovered that those first few days in the NICU caused him 50% hearing loss. Unfortunately, I must have Csections because of the twins.
I have been homeschooling for 2 years and it has been up and down. I tend towards Classical but my kids don't yet. We use an eclectic mix of stuff and I have posted erracticly on Sonlight Forums, Well Trained MInd Forums, and RC History.
Holly
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Hi,
Just a brief intro and then (probably) back to "lurk-mode"...
Married 22 years. I'm 42. We're retired Army (well, dh is retired, I did 3 years just about forever ago.) We live in central Texas.
As you can tell by my screenname, I like to knit. A lot. I see there are lots of knitters here and I'm thrilled about that! My oldest dd "picked" that name for me for forums and IM... she thought it most appropriate.
I have 6 living children and 10 little saints.
- Pat, son, 21, homeschool graduate active duty Army currently deployed (coming for R&R soon!)
- Sean, son, 19+, homeschool graduate, currently working fulltime and enlisting in the army after Pat goes back to his duty.
- Kellie, 13, 9th grade
- Katie, 11, 5th grade
- Abbie, 8, 3d grade
- John-Paul, 1, and an absolute joy!
We've been homeschooling for 14 years. We've used Seton, Kolbe, followed Laura Berquists recommendations (sometimes "strictly" sometimes loosely) and were enrolled in MODG.
I've been experiencing a bit of homeschool burnout and am hoping that I can get a little shot in the arm here!
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OHHHH, Extreme Knitter, I can see you and I are going to get along great (I have a Catie 15 and a John-Paul 4) as well as a few other tikes but the knitting .... I am a fanatic also. You might check the Our Lady's Loom forum as we've discussed some knitting there ... and I'm always on the look-out for more discussions about this fabulous art-craft!
Welcome to the board and if this board doesn't get you that little shot in the arm I don't know what will!
Blessings and hugs and welcome again!
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my website that combines my schooling, hand-knits work, writing and everything else in one spot!
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Thank you, Mary! I did go into Our Lady's Loom and loved the knitting discussions there. While I was waiting on approval, I so longed to dive into some of the knitting discussions!
I may disappear for a short bit. Today is a very good day. I received the privilege of becoming godmother to another darling baby girl and when we returned home from the reception, my oldest son was here to surprise us! He is home for 16 days of R&R. I may even put down the needles for this! (okay, maybe not, but......)
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Hey, Extremeknitter!!! I know who you are!! Welcome to the boards. This is such a wonderful place. Enjoy the book too.
Extremeknitter is my guide as I knit my first project in over a decade!! She's teaching my children to knit as well as a bunch of others in our homeschool group. Enjoy your son's visit.
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Michaela ('01)
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thanks, KC! I will definitely be enjoying Pat!
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HI
I am Lynn, wife to Michael and mama to 11 wonderful children rangeing in age from 18 to 10mths. Our eldest 2 children have graduated from our home school and both are studying at university towards bachelor degree's. Our 3rd child while still completing yr 10 here at home, has started studying at tafe towards a certificate in veterinary nursing. We have a couple of kids with special needs one with Down Syndrome another with a non specified intellectual delay and a few with varying degree's of dyslexia.
We live in Australia on the beautiful north coast of NSW and share our corner of the world with our 2 dogs ,a cat, 12 horses, 14 goats, 9 cows and whole lot of chickens, ducks and geese. I often drop in & browse through this forum so thought it was about time I join in.
Lynn
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LynnB wrote:
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I am Lynn, wife to Michael and mama to 11 wonderful children rangeing in age from 18 to 10mths. Our eldest 2 children have graduated from our home school and both are studying at university towards bachelor degree's. Our 3rd child while still completing yr 10 here at home, has started studying at tafe towards a certificate in veterinary nursing. We have a couple of kids with special needs one with Down Syndrome another with a non specified intellectual delay and a few with varying degree's of dyslexia.
We live in Australia on the beautiful north coast of NSW and share our corner of the world with our 2 dogs ,a cat, 12 horses, 14 goats, 9 cows and whole lot of chickens, ducks and geese. I often drop in & browse through this forum so thought it was about time I join in.
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Welcome Lynn! What a great family you have! I'm new here too and look forward to 'running into' you here more!
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Hey welcome Lynn 
Pleased to see you've made your way over here 
Some of you may remember me mentioning my IRL friend with 11 children before, yep it's Lynn.
Welcome to all the other new members here too.
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Welcome Lynn! My husband has a half-brother who live in Australia as well!
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Hello,
My name is Dani and I'm wife to Michael and mom to four boys, Sean (20), Cade & Connor (identical 12), and Quinn (6). We live in Maryland. I've been homeschooling for about ten years now. I've used a variety of curriculum over the years. Quinn was born with Down syndrome so I've had to get creative with teaching and documenting his progress (he does not like to do written work...he just likes to play and look at his books). In my search to better serve him I ran across lapbooking and it seems to be working out very well for us.
Nice to meet you all.
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Dani,
Where in MD are you? We're in AA County. I too have a young special needs child so I have been creaative with documenting what we do.
In Christ,
Deborah
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mom3aut1not wrote:
Dani,
Where in MD are you? We're in AA County. I too have a young special needs child so I have been creaative with documenting what we do.
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Hi I just wanted to say that I use The Excelsior Academy as my oversite and they are very helpful and let you hs without having to be "creative" when we document. The price is reasonable IMO and when it comes times for highschool they will help you document your information. I just thought I'd throw out that for all Maryland hsers.
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